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[nicebutdim]

I suppose the other option if using swa single phase is to buy it the with the brown, blue, green/yellow colours.

Indeed, but it's not always possible to do so.

 

[Julie.]

Oops

 

[DPG]

Oops

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That's got to be a setup that one.

 

[Julie.]

That's got to be a setup that one.

I think so as well, especially as this one was with it

 

[brianmoooore]

That's got to be a setup that one.

Seen a few like that on table lights and wall lights after an attempt to change a lamp.

 

[littlespark]

A 5A fuse for a lamp? That’s just terrible!

 

[Raptor0014]

Amazeballs.

 

[Raptor0014]

It gets betterer……

 

[JBW175]

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You’re onto a winner today with that lot.

 

[Raptor0014]

You’re onto a winner today with that lot.

What’s more amazing is the customer is adamant it’s not DIY. He had another electrician in who left the job half way through and hasn’t been back in touch. I’m guessing he’s fell out with ‘Dave from the pub’.

I’ve disconnected the lot. Initially he was a bit miffed I’d disconnected it all. But I said that’s what needed to be done as it’s not safe. Explained to him a few options of how it can be resolved and he’s asked for a quote and when I have availability.

 

[LewisM]

He probably done it himself and was well chuffed with it now you (rightly so) have come in and told him it's a sack of ----

 

[JBW175]

What’s more amazing is the customer is adamant it’s not DIY. He had another electrician in who left the job half way through and hasn’t been back in touch. I’m guessing he’s fell out with ‘Dave from the pub’.

I’ve disconnected the lot. Initially he was a bit miffed I’d disconnected it all. But I said that’s what needed to be done as it’s not safe. Explained to him a few options of how it can be resolved and he’s asked for a quote and when I have availability.

That’s good that he’s been reasonable about you disconnecting it and wants you to do it properly. It looks a right dogs dinner in those photos.

 

[Raptor0014]

That’s good that he’s been reasonable about you disconnecting it and wants you to do it properly. It looks a right dogs dinner in those photos

This is what got me the most. That’s a light switch providing switched isolation for the consumer unit.

 

[littlespark]

And worryingly, that old white switch looks like the tidiest part of the job.

 

[Raptor0014]

And worryingly, that old white switch looks like the tidiest part of the job.

First time I’ve seen SWA taken to one.

 

[mainline]

What’s more amazing is the customer is adamant it’s not DIY. He had another electrician in who left the job half way through and hasn’t been back in touch. I’m guessing he’s fell out with ‘Dave from the pub’.

I’ve disconnected the lot. Initially he was a bit miffed I’d disconnected it all. But I said that’s what needed to be done as it’s not safe. Explained to him a few options of how it can be resolved and he’s asked for a quote and when I have availability.

Where's that what looks like swa in the meter cabinet come/goto

 

[Raptor0014]

Where's that what looks like swa in the meter cabinet come/goto

That’s the SWA for this abomination. It goes to the fused spur under the consumer unit you can see in one of the pics.

Not glanded anywhere, not that it matters as they’ve peeled the armour back to shove it into the box with the 3 core & earth PVC cable.

 

[mainline]

That’s the SWA for this abomination. It goes to the fused spur under the consumer unit you can see in one of the pics.

Not glanded anywhere, not that it matters as they’ve peeled the armour back to shove it into the box with the 3 core & earth PVC cable.

Ahhh I was wondering because it's following the dno cable I thought it may have been a bypass didn't realise it's looped through

 

[pc1966]

Asked by a relative to change a light switch. OK no big deal, unscrew the two fixing screws as usual, pull them out...and out...hmm by time over 5cm of screw has exited I was not expecting great things:

Now they have identified black as (presumably) switched live but yes that really is polystyrene bulking up the wall with the back-box recessed by several cm. Chock block probably all that existed at the time (done at least 16 years ago) but also not visible is the bottom left corner where the earth tag screw was just spinning and no gip of the CPC at all.

Nothing like the sort of other crap that makes it here, but not my ideal job when not prepared to actually fix it properly. Best I could do at the time was to use on of the woodscrews to retain the CPCs.

 

[westward10]

Just use one of the upper or lower 3.5mm plate fixing screws.